Everyone has their own information system, Merlin from 43Folders has come up with his system on storing his text information by using a traditional text file. Some unique features on his system: Only uses one big directory/folder Uses five metadatas on the filename to organise – Metasymbol; SphereOfLife; Project; UniqueName; and VersionNumber The versioning probably is one of…

Everyone knows that Charles Darwin said life was “the survival of the fittest.” Everyone knows it, but it isn’t true.

To be an organized family (or invidiuals), first step is to organize your home well. Parent Center has a good article on how you should organize different parts of your house. Areas including the entryway, kitchen kids’ bedrooms, your bedroom, bathroom, home office / family paperwork center and family room. It has couple of small…

As a frequent traveler, I want to share some packing tips that have helped me stay free of wrinkles. I have tried many methods including an classic method detailed on the Men’s Wearhouse site; steaming my clothes in the bathroom on arrival, voodoo, etc. None of these methods quite did the trick…

Before you decide the Pareto Principle is true and can be used to guide your actions, I want to ask two important questions. Can you identify which actions make up the useful 20%? And can you do so in advance? And does this useful 20% always contain more or less the same actions?

Over at Flipping Heck!, Katy has posted her idea on how to organise her DVD collection. She went through her system on storage, and ways on storing the tracking information. A good tip that I found is should you be sorting the DVD by genre or alphabetically: … The main thing thing to consider when deciding…

Speed is everywhere. Fast cars, high-speed Internet connections, fast food, quickie divorces, “The One-Minute Manager.” Is faster always better? I doubt it, especially when you’re dealing with people. We may want to get our burger quickly, but who wants only a few moments of someone’s attention?

If you feel all those RSS feeds overwhelm you, you should try this method suggested by Stephen Nipper at rethink(ip). Stephen said whenever you have new RSS feed lands onto your news aggregator, you should put all of them to a folder called “Probation”. Then once a month, run through and promote any rss feed…

In my career, I’ve experienced times when disloyalty was disruptive and killed any sense of trust. But I’ve also seen cases where too much unquestioning loyalty meant important issues were suppressed until it was too late. It’s made me wonder if open questioning of authority, short of defiance, may be essential if we’re not to lose our way.

Related to the last post, I found out Jeffrey Phillips has similar brainstorming post on document organization. He said: ‘But while we are generating all these documents, we very rarely consider how they will be stored, recalled and/or reused.’ – Very true, or we are not consider how we store our document because sorting needs…

In response to Ask Lifehack.Community “How do I organize a large and growing collection of Electronic documents?”, Matthew Cornell had a detail look into the issue on organizing electronic documents. Recently he adopted GTD’s filing system, which designed for paper organization, for his email organization. In his post, he wondered if this can apply…